The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. The Development Team, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders need to figure out whether they are still on track delivering value to customers. An alignment?—?did

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation.

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Modus Create

JULY 11, 2019

People with strong personalities habitually play devil’s advocate — a habit which, on its own, is actually not bad. Again, the ability to rally a team around a common goal is a great quality in a leader. Instead, find some truth in what he or she is saying, even if you or the team don’t agree with all of it.

User Testing 72

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Thanks, Luke!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Social engineering is a threat because it is a way for criminals and bad actors to access sensitive information by tricking people into revealing it. Poor Cyber Hygiene. Poor cyber hygiene is a threat because it leads to increased vulnerability to cyberattacks, as well as decreased efficiency and productivity. Cyber Extortion.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. Complex deals, complex problems.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sometimes teams fall short of getting pipelines tied together and running, sure. Developing systems for a diverse group of stakeholders to consume the same data is no small task; it’s a journey. Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js, said it best in his 2011 rant: “I hate almost all software. Spectacularly.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and Nice try #1.)

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2020

Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client. Custom development of a bespoke reporting tool 2. Try a little exercise, before we move on.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Because the other part is standing up and talking to the team. You’ve got some of the basics in place and it’s time to sit down with the team.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2020

Pitfalls Successful Distributed Teams Avoid We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by delving into virtual Liberating Structures, and how to master Zoom. the pitfalls any distributed team wants to avoid to become successful. TL; DR: Remote Agile Anti-Patterns?—?Pitfalls

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Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have. Modus CoE’s don’t promote a specific technology – they help our teams grow their leadership competencies, collaboration abilities, and communication skills.

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